John Smith wrote:

> I SMTP relay into an exchange server. Something magical happened sometime
> over the holiday weekend and now I have 4,000 stupid NDR emails along with
> some actual valid emails sitting in my SMTP queue. I yanked all the delive
ry
> times down to 1 minute and squashed all connection timeouts to 1 minute ye
t
> I sit here an hour later waiting for this stupid SMTP server to make it
> through the queue. What else is there to get this pile of garbage to
> respond?

Just think about it:

The ndr's sitting there will eventually move to the badmail directory
(most of them will be spam anyway). You might be well advised to empty
that directory on a regular basis...

What good is reducing delivery times supposed to be?
>
> "Industrial strength SMTP server" my patootie.

It is. It just needs proper administration...

If your active queue is piling up your problem sits elsewhere (dns
problems, connectivity problems, spam problems).

At times we had over 40.000 (!) mails sitting in our mail queue and most
of them were ndr's on their way out to nonexistant addresses...

We solved that problem by using software from www.vamsoft.com to filter
inbound mails...


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Martin Bodenstedt

Landtag von Baden-Württemberg (www.landtag-bw.de)

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